African American First
She was the first African-American child to de-segregate an all-white school in Louisiana on November 14, 1960.
Ruby Bridges
Which African American was elected president of the United States in 2008?
Who is BARACK OBAMA!!!!!
Who collaborated with other civil rights leaders to ignite the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 by refusing to give up her seat on a public bus.
Who is Rosa Parks
This amazing man is the self–proclaimed “greatest [boxer] of all time” was originally named after his father, who was named after the 19th century abolitionist and politician Cassius Marcellus Clay.
Who is Muhammad Ali
Name the black revolutionary group, founded in 1966 in Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton & Bobby Seale. The party’s original purpose was to patrol African American neighborhoods to protect residents from acts of police brutality.
The Black Panther Party
The first black major league baseball player in the 20th Century:
Jackie Robinson
Name the famous poet who said,
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly.
Langston Hughes
She is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current Vice President of the United States. She is the United States' first female vice president, the highest-ranking female elected official in U.S. history, and the first African American and first Asian American vice president.
Who is Kamala Harris
A leader of the civil rights movement in the United States during the 1950's and 1960's, and won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize for leading nonviolent civil rights demonstrations?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
Name the Golden Age of African-American culture in NYC that occurred in the 1920s until the early 1930s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance
Current Event -- This means redirecting money and resources away from the police department to other government agencies social service and mental health programs
What is Defund the Police
Who was the first Black golf champion to tour on the Professional Golf Association (PGA) circuit?
Who is Tiger Woods
This prominent figure during the civil rights movement said, “We didn’t land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us.”
Malcolm X
Who was the first Black woman to be on the ballot as a candidate for President?
Who is Shirley Chisholm
This notable civil rights activist was killed in his driveway by a white supremacist in Jackson Mississippi in 1963. His killer was finally convicted in 1994 for the crime after being acquitted earlier in two trials by all white juries.
Who was Medgar Evers
After many protests, including a major demonstration in Selma, Alabama, the U.S. Congress passed the ____________. It ended voting restrictions and led to a great increase in the number of Black voters.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965
the first Black male Greek-letter organization, was founded in 1906 at Cornell University.
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (Alpha),
Which athlete said this, "I've failed over and over again in my life, and that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan
Current Event -- She is a politician and civil rights activist from Georgia who was recently nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Her efforts to get out the black vote helped the state nominate a democratic presidential candidate for the first time in almost 30 years.
Who is Stacey Abrams
A U.S. civil-rights activist who in the 1960s originated the Black nationalism rallying slogan, “Black power.”
Who is Stokely Charmichael
What was the name of the organization founded by a group that included Ida B. Wells and WEB Dubois?
What is The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
This holiday is on June Nineteenth, which marks the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas in 1865. Today, it commemorates the end of slavery in the United States and is also known as Freedom Day.
What is Juneteenth
Which Supreme Court case decreed a slave was his master's property and African Americans were not citizens?
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Which author became the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. (Hint: Her resume includes "Sula" and "The Bluest Eye")
Who is Toni Morrison
What revoluational activist said this, "You can kill a revolutionary but you can never kill the revolution."
Fred Hampton
Who was the first Black person to serve as the United States Secretary of State?
Who is Colin Powell
She helped in the formation and organization of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of the most active organizations in advocating for human rights.
Ella Baker
He was an enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people.
Who is Nat Turner
Who was the first African American to have his likeness portrayed on a U.S. postage stamp?
Who is Booker T. Washington
Which famous author said, "People are trapped in History & History is trapped in them."
James Baldwin
He was a civil rights activist who was the first Black member of the U.S. Supreme Court,
Thurgood Marshall
He was an openly gay advisor to MLK who assisted King through the Montgomery bus boycotts, creation of the Southern Leadership Conference, and nonviolent tactics
Bayard Rustin
A former slave, who became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, women's rights in the nineteenth century. She is known for saying, "aint I a woman."
Sojourner Truth
She led an uprising after members of the LGBTQ community were harassed at at the Stonewall Inn by members of the NYPD in 1969.
Marsha P. Johnson
What year did two African-American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, each raised a black-gloved fist during the playing of the US national anthem, "The Star-Spangled Banner".
1968